We also looked at El Dorado, but I think that project is going in a direction that doesn't really mesh with our goals (it is becoming more of a full CMS system).

We're actually playing around with vBulletin right now as we've really outgrown PunBB, in our opinion. We'd love to use a Rails-based forum, but we also believe that you should always use the best tool for the job ... right now, a more developed PHP-based forum system (like vB) is better suited to what we're looking to accomplish.

We also looked at El Dorado, but I think that project is going in a direction that doesn't really mesh with our goals (it is becoming more of a full CMS system).

We're actually playing around with vBulletin right now as we've really outgrown PunBB, in our opinion. We'd love to use a Rails-based forum, but we also believe that you should always use the best tool for the job ... right now, a more developed PHP-based forum system (like vB) is better suited to what we're looking to accomplish.

Yeah that's what I meant, I don't really know much about either apart from their existence, stumbled onto altered beast when I was looking for some examples of rSpecs to help me get moving on rspec.